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“The front three can score in every game at any minute. It’s unbelievable how good they are. They did it again. We are always happy if they can score and we win.”

Virgil van Dijk and Emre Can of Liverpool show their appreciation to the fans (Image: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Given that attacking trio’s current form, the biggest surprise was that it was Can, rather than Salah,Firmino or Mane, who scored Liverpool’s first and their landmark 100th in their 40th fixture of the term.

German midfielder Can revealed he set Jurgen Klopp’s side on their way by replicating a header from a Salah corner that he had executed in training the previous day.

“I’m happy that I could score because we trained it and I scored like that,” he added.

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“If you can prepare a team for each game, it would make football much more attractive if you gave the teams more time to prepare things.

“Sometimes it’s only intense and both teams need to deal with intensity and fight, so we really could prepare and I’m happy that I saw a lot of things we did on the training ground in the last 10 days.

“I am happy we didn’t have to play immediately after Porto because for a human being it’s difficult to have a situation like that, winning 5-0 completely not expected and then you need to be ready again so I was happy about that.”